Alexander Moro, 189 in the ATP ranking at 23 years old, was the only Spanish tennis player who managed to pass the Wimbledon qualifier. The tennis player from Madrid will debut on Tuesday in a ‘Grand Slam’ tournament against the British guest Jacob Fearnley.
If you pass the initial screening, he could face Novak Djokovic, one of his idols along with the Swiss Roger Federer. “I have always been more of Roger and Novak, that is why Wimbledon has always been my favorite tournament. They have won many matches here and have made history. It was my dream to even come just to watch it. Play the preview “It was already super exciting for me. The first game I was very close to losing.”
Moro had barely played three matches on grass on the ATP circuit. It was last year at the Mallorca Championships, where he entered at the last minute, (“the game lasted an hour“), and two more in the Ilkley challenger.
“I don’t look at the draw, I only knew that he was playing at the bottom of the draw,” Alejandro said before finding out through the Spanish press that Djokovic would be waiting for him in a hypothetical situation. tica second round.
For entering the main draw of the grass great, the Spanish tennis player has a prize of 70,842 euros, more than half of what he had accumulated during his four years as a professional. “I don’t look at the money I make. I’ll look at it in a couple of weeks. I come from a family where the means are not what we have the most“.
At the Alcal� de Henares school they bet on me
Moro has taken advantage of his first day at the All England Club facilities to get closer to Carlos Alcaraz’s training. The man from Murcia has trained with Grigor Dimitrov.
Emilio S�nchez was his supporter at 17 years old and welcomed him for three seasons in its academies in Barcelona and Florida.
With a carpenter father, he himself chose the path of tennis one day when his father took him to basketball classes. “My father parked in front of some tennis courts and I told him that sport caught my attention.” I was nine years old.
“My parents made great sacrifices, they deprived themselves of many things so that I could play, they went a little to the limit. I was lucky that at the Alcalé de Henares school, where I started, they also bet on me.” regarding the economic part that we could not assume,” he reflects.
Alcaraz is an example of how to transmit the values of tennis
It was then that He met his coach David Flores, who taught him to play tennis and with whom he is at Wimbledon. Has joined the team Boban Nikolenkofrom the Emilio S�nchez Academy in Barcelona.
The gift for the 128 players
This Saturday, Moro received the gift that the organization gives to the 128 players present in the individual draws: “There was a gift card to redeem in the store and I went to buy gifts so that my friends would have a souvenir. “I would love for them to be here.”
Alejandro has Alcaraz as references, “who is an example in every sense, in his character on the court and how he transmits those values of tennis, that courage, that audacity…. Then there is the ‘ Big Three’, that you can always get things from them.”
The man from Madrid, however, has a special mention for the figure of Roberto Bautista: “He is a great example of how he treated me since I met him.“. They met last year in the quarterfinals of the Valencia challenger, the Faulcombridge Cup, “and it was a before and after in my career and in my life.” Bautista won, 6-2 and 7 -5. “I feel identified because Roberto got involved little by little and with that work base.”
